The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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| COPPER CoIN in his pocket turned aside
| bullet fred at California lad by highway
man.
THE recent death of Mrs. Polly Ford OF Mil
ford, Conn, reduces the number of living CEN
tenarians in Connecticut TO eleven
ANNIE NELSON, aged years, has just arrived
at her aunt's hDme in Montague, Mich having
| Travelled all the way from Denmark alone.
| THE annual exodus Of Cinnamon, anxious to
take part in the New Year festivities in their
own land, has Already set in. A recent steamer
| from San Francisco for China had more than
! 800 Celestials as passengers
| E. HuNNEwEL1. of Cincinnati has just been
expelled from the Garfield Club in that city for
| two reasons He declared on election day that
Jefferson Davis vas a better patriot than Gov.
| Foraker, and alst voted the straight Democratic
| ticket
A COMPANY with 100000 capital has been
formed in Baltimore to trade between that city
and the Congo coast of Africa, and to carry the
mails. The company expects to furnish passage
to numbers of colored people desiring to emf
gate to Africa.
CALVIN H. SCHIvELY, Of Philadelphia, is in
hard luck. He carried all his savings in belt
strapped around his body for twenty-five years
until he had accumulated $1,000. Then he put
the whole amount into a business venture along
with two newly-made acquaintance, and lost 1T
all.
PREPARATIONS are nearly completed for light
ing the Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts with
electricity Over 200 incandescent lamps will
be used. They will be placed at distance apart
| of 20 feet, ard an equal number erected on each
side of the tunnel. The Westinghouse alternat-
ing system will be used.
THE Parkersburg wv. va) Sentinel states that
| it has private information to the effect that
Senator Faulkner will be seated without oppo-
sition, except from Mr.. Lucas. A number OF
Republican Senators have expressed an opinion
favorable to Senator Faulkner's unquestioned
right to the seat, and will vote for him.
A CITIZEN of Topsaeld, Mass, was greatly
startled the other night when tall white figure
doomed up in front of him on lonely road. He
kept his senses, however, and investigated, and
what might have been first-class ghost proved
TO be an insane woman who had escaped from
the Danvers asylum. The citizen at once took
her back to the institution.
PROBABLY the Oldest man in Massachusetts,,
who voted at the recent election, was Ezekiel
Peabody of Ipswich. Mr.. Peabody will be 100
years old on June 49, next. He did not friend
to vote. but upon request of his Republican
friends. who had urgent need Of him and more,
he went on foot and unaided except by his cane
acquitted himself as in the days of young
manhood.
BRANFoRD. Conn, has genuine wild girl"
Her name is Lizzie Hearn. She is insane and
was placed in the Middetown asylum from
which she was released four months ago. Soon
afterward she disappeared, and ten days later
was found by hunters in a swamp near Bran
ford. She was taken home but two days after
ward escaped to the woods again, and was there
at last accounts wandering in the swamps.
AN application for a charter for the Mary J.
Drexe Home and Mother House of Deaconesses
has been applied for in Philadelphia The build
iOe arn to hn of gfO md var
objects of the home will be the reception and
support of worthy aged couples and
aged single men and women of German birth
or descent, and for the religious instruction of
deaconeSses, who shall be members of the Lu-
theran church.
SENATOR CAMERON Capt. Rogers and others,
who have been travelling by special car in the
West. recently side tracked the coach and drove
to neighboring ranch While they were away
a gang of drunken cowboys surrounded the car,
laSSoed the conductor and the three cOlored
servants, and when the Senator and his com
pany came up stopped their horses and threat
ened all sorts of things. Ii required considerable
diplomacy to induce them to go away without
first riddling the coach with pistol balls and
having more fun with the coons."
CALIFORNIA has some big orchards, and the
largest is in the Suisun valley. and is owned by
A T. Hatch, President of the California Fruit
Union Mr.. Hatch has 200 acres in pear trees,
1870 in peaches 70 in apricots, 10 in nectarines.
2lU IN Almonds. ~ IN CherrleS, 1UO In pllmS and
prunes. besides 40 acres of currants and goose
berries md hundreds of lemon and orange
trees. OF these acres 300 bore fruit this season
to the amount of 1000 tons, which brought the
owner 100000. He calculates that when the
whole orchard is in full bearing it will produce
5000 tons Of fruit, worth 100000.
A FEW DAYS after the recent rich strike was
made in the Black Queen mine, near Gunnison,
Col, D. B. Fowler, who had lease and bond on
the claim, prepared to ship ore Mrs Ellen
Jack, one of the owners of the mine, went there
just as pack train was starting with a load of
ore, and drawing pistol. ordered the men to
leave the mineral. They obeyed and then swore
out warrant for her arrest, charging her with
trial Mrs. Jack was acquitted, the Judge hold
ing that Fowler had no right to the ore and
that she had right to defend her property.
IT APPEARS from the results of the tests made
at Cbristiania, Norway, that the De Bange gun
is likely to prove powerful rival of the famous
Krupp weapon. The former guns have a caliher
of Sd centimeters, and the number of shots
fred. amounting to 1000 have not effected the
smallest trace of extension, the diameter
measured before aud after the 1000 shots
agreeing to a hundredth part of a millimeter
The accuracy and range of the firing have also
been entirely satisfactory. Some minor draw
backs in connection with the gun carriage and
the regulating screws, both Of which suffered
somewhat from the powerful recoil, have been
removed and those now used have stood the
last 800 rounds without the least hitch.
B. A. BARTLETT, of Randolph, is a
remarkable riheman. In recent exhibition
of his skill, he is said to have hit a common
white bean at n distance of twenty-five Yards
holding his rifle in various positions He also
hit a postal card that was set up edgewise
Using 32-calibre ball. he shot through a 81
calibre pistol barrel. the bullet splitting on
knife-blade on the further end of the revolver
barrel. and each half of the bullet breaking an
egg. He ignited parlor match held by per-
son at the target stand, knocked the ashes ffom
cigars, and concluded by shooting bean from
the nose of friend, who had sufficient conf
dence in his skill to permit the attempt All
these remarkable shots are vouched for by rep
utable witnesses.
A 9-YEAR OLD Eagleville, Conn, boy was be-
lated at Coventry, several miles from his home
the other night, and, being afraid to go home
in the dark, put his Yankee wits to work Pretty
soon doctor of the place was informed by a
small boy that well known citizen of Eagle
vile was very i'll with typhoid fever, and want
ed him to come to him Immediately. The doc
tor said he'd go after supper, and asked the lad
to join him at the table. The boy did So and
soon after was snugly tucked by the side of the
doctor in his carriage and rolling homward
When they arrived at the house of the alleged
sick man the boy scrambled out, and the doctor
followed and knocked at the door. The citizen
himself, in usual health, opened it. He hadn't
been sick, and hadn't sent for the doctor Then
they looked for the boy. They couldn't And
him. He had had his supper and ride home.
and was well out of the way.